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Word Tales: Hogmanay

New Year’s Eve in the United States is a time revered for ending a year with bad decisions (usually too much drinking that leads to other poor choices) and then flipping over a page to start the new year with a clean slate. At the end of 2020, I was exposed to the word “Hogmanay”,…

February 23, 2021
Mario Party is an A-hole (explicit)

Games are supposed to be fun, whether it is in card, board, or video format. They bring people together in providing a pleasant combination of escape and competition. Sometimes, however, a game will come along draped in the deceit of promising a good time while simultaneously preparing to bring forth great agony with the pain…

February 20, 2021
Remember, Remember the Third of November

With the election today, this is very much a political post not intended to stir fervor and challenge opinions. It is intended simply as documentation of my condensed thoughts during a historical time.

November 3, 2020
Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons

How’s your night going? Mine, because I watched this movie, was weird.

October 28, 2020
Spooky Watch: 28 Days Later

Why in the world would I watch a movie about a highly contagious and deadly virus in a year when a highly contagious and deadly virus is rampaging throughout the world? Because it is October and now is the time to bask in the surreal, the scary, and that which causes a degree of unease.…

October 26, 2020
Backlog BBQ: The Last of Us

If ever a game required a palette cleanser to recover mentally and physically from the experience of play, The Last of Us is that game.

October 19, 2020
Backlog BBQ: Marvel’s Spider-Man

Do you remember your first time? Were you nervous? Excited? Peter Parker was my first…first platinum trophy that is.

October 14, 2020
Basement Isolation in the Age of COVID

COVID rules the world. I went into a group of people, and then I spent two weeks in my basement. It wasn’t bad, but it sure was surreal.

October 1, 2020
Apple Watch: In Memoriam

This week, I said goodbye to a friend, my OG Apple watch, and now I grapple with what life looks like in a post-Apple Watch world.

September 14, 2020
Quarantine Tales: The Mountain Man – Part 1

The world has changed. People have changed. These are the (fictional) tales that escaped.

August 18, 2020